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The Beelink ME Pro line of devices are small desktop computers with support for a lot of storage. Blurring the lines a bit between a mini PC and a NAS, the ME Pro features two M.2 2280 slots for storage plus either 2 or 4 bays for 3.5 inch hard drives. It also has an interesting modular design that makes it possible to replace the mainboard and processor.
When the company first introduced the ME Pro late last year, it was available with a choice of Intel N95 or Intel N150 low-power processor options. But the company promised that AMD and Arm models were on the way. Now the company is expanding the ecosystem with the introduction of several new pr ocessor options: Intel Core i5-13420H, AMD Ryzen 7 H 255, or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.
The Intel Core i5 chip is an older processor based on 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” architecture, but it should bring a significant performance boost over the low-power Intel Alder Lake-N/Twin Lake chips that had been the only option until now.
AMD’s Ryzen 7 H 255 chip, meanwhile, is a mid-range octa-core processor based on “Hawk Point” architecture, while the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is a high-performance “Strix Point” processor with a 12-core, 24-thread CPU, 16-core RDNA 3.5 graphics, and a 50 TOPS NPU.
Beelink hasn’t announced how much models with these processors will cost, or when you’ll be able to purchase them yet. But it seems like a safe bet that they’ll cost more than the current version, which sells for $379 and up (when configured with an Intel N95 chip, 12GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, but no hard drives).
It’s also unclear whether Beelink plans to sell mainboards for folks that want to upgrade an existing ME Pro system, but thanks to a modular design that places that mainboard on a removable tray, it should theoretically be possible.
The Beelink ME Pro 2-Bay system measures 121 x 112 x 165mm (4.8″x 4.4″ x 6.4″), while the 4-bay model is 166 x 146 x 166mm (6.5″ x 5.7″ x 6.5″).
Both models feature a set of ports that includes:
Beelink ME Pro systems with Intel N95 and Intel N150 processors use LPDDR5-4800 onboard memory, but I haven’t seen any news about whether the new models will also have RAM soldered to the mainboard or if they might support user-replaceable memory.
And Beelink says it’ll use different colors for models with different pr ocessors.
Moving forward, versions with Intel chips will be navy blue while ME Pro units with AMD chips will be black. There are also plans for white versions with Arm-based processors even though Beelink hasn’t introduced any Arm processor options yet.
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